I used a wheelie bin. Chilled down three kegs in the fridge, then stood them up in the back of my car with a foam matress wrapped around them, drove down to the holiday house with a bunch of friends, cleaned out the recycling wheelie bin, put in the kegs with about 5 bags of ice, wrapped the outside of the wheelie bin with the foam matress. The whole contraption stayed cold for the whole weekend (or rather that fraction of the weekend that the beer lasted for). I dispensed the beer with one of those CO2 bulb charger things; took four bulbs per keg (which is good because I had a 12 pack of them).

There is a brewer here in Adelaide who straps 2 kegs to a sack truck and runs the beer thru a magic box (esky full of ice with metres of beer line sitting in it) and then out of 2 taps on the front of the esky. Even if the keg does warm up slightly its still good. Only issue is that he has to gas it up a bit higher to pour all thru the day.

RWH - did you use a pluto gun with the bin? You have to have pics of that set up for us!

As far as I know, the magic boxes aren't all that cheap. And most of the suggestions seem to involve bags of ice. At my last oktoberfest, my old fridge had died a few weeks before. I ended up spending $30 on ice to cool 2 kegs. I'm looking to avoid that situation again- or any other that involves buying ice! That stuff isn't cheap!

Thanks for the info Ross. I'll need to order a soda stream adapter from you in the not too distant future, as well as a couple of 9L kegs

A beer in the hand is worth two in George Bush...

"They say beer will make me dumb. It are go good with pizza"Psychostick

Bought a picnic tap and had the maiden voyage on the weekend. Went around to see a mate do his 1st AG and took a keg of landlord with me with the picnic tap attached. Straight from my kegging fridge so was already chilled and carbed up. Gave it a touch more CO2. Poured a little frothy to start with but calmed down during the course of the day, it was put into a beer fridge to keep it cool-ish. Went home and swapped the keg for the hefeweizen, took that along to a party that night and was a hit.

A keg parka would help if i left it out of the fridge for an extended period but since it has such a large thermal mass it warms up slower than a stubbie does.

Also picked up another 3 kegs making 7 in total so i can age the beers for a few months in the keg prior to drinking.